SAMI A CHANGE OF PACE PART 2 - INDICATING DOGS

I want to emphasise again that your success and fun will depend significantly on the raw material of the dog you are working with. If you have a calm-natured, intelligent, biddable dog, you will enjoy your journey so much more and vastly increase your chance of success, so choose carefully.

My ideal is a dog with hunt drive, but also a temperament that means it really wants to please you, ensuring that when it’s tracking an animal, it also remains naturally aware of not getting too far in front.

If you are picking a pup, be very careful about the breeding, choose from a proven line. If you are looking at a rehomed dog, look carefully at its nature in relation to the way it has been raised. Getting a rehomed dog at say, twelve months old can help you see exactly what its temperament is like as opposed to a young pup, which in my opinion is a lot harder to read, unless you have spent a huge amount of time around it. Rehomed dogs can come with their own